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I’m missing the sourcing on that poll. That article is an anecdote.
by ianai 3y ago
I’m missing the sourcing on that poll. That article is an anecdote.
- defrost 3y agoThe source (no comment on quality) is cited in a secondary Guardian article: > But who are the childless and how many of them wanted children? The closest we can come is a 2010 meta-analysis by the Dutch academic Prof Renske Keiser[2], which suggested that only 10% of childless women actively chose not to become mothers. That leaves 90% of women like Day. Only 9% of that 90% are childless for known medical reasons [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-desire-to-have-a-child-never-goes-away-how-the-involuntarily-childless-are-forming-a-new-movement https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-des... [2] https://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2010/Kinderloosheid+is+zelden+een+keuze.html https://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2010/Kinderloosheid+is+zel... NOTE!! [2] is the actual link given in the 2017 Guardian article and that link to a Dutch popsci site no longer works - link rot strikes again. For myself I'm rarely swayed by third hand references to meta surveys that "suggest" a result.